Fancy editor for the text widget
The wordpress text widget is wrongly named as it is actually an HTML widget, capable of hosting not only plain text, but also HTML markup.
People who know basic html can easily use it in the text widget, but the advice given to the casual user was “write what you want in the post editor, go to the HTML tab, and copy the HTML to the widget”. For those people this plugin brings the editor right into the text widget.
As the image above indicates, the fancy editor allows you to change the foreground and background color of a text, its size, make text bold, italic, underlined or with a strike through, and lets you insert links and images.
Since the plugin do not make any change in the text you enter, you can turn off the plugin at any point in time without losing your data. After turning the plugin off you will simply see the raw HTML when editing the widget.
Requirements:
Wordpress 2.5
Installation:
Download this file, unzip it, and upload the fancytextwidget directory into the plugins directory of your blog. Now go to the plugin management panel, and activate it.
License: BSD.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:57 am
I am new to Wordpress and want to use this editor on my blog. I uploaded and activated it but I don’t see it. I just want to do more than “bold” and “italic” some text in my post body. Any suggestions?
June 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am
Hi Jeff,
This editor is not supposed to be used for editing posts, but rather for editing the content of the text widget. If you don’t see the editor when you are trying to write a post, try to go to check if visual editing is enabled in your user profile. If you still don’t see the editor my advice is to go to the forums at wordpress.org and ask for help.